Micah 2:6
New Living Translation
True and False Prophets
6 “Don’t say such things,”
the people respond.[a]
“Don’t prophesy like that.
Such disasters will never come our way!”
Footnotes
- 2:6 Or the prophets respond; Hebrew reads they prophesy.
Micah 2:6
King James Version
6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
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Amos 2:12
New Living Translation
12 “But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine,
and you commanded the prophets, ‘Shut up!’
Amos 2:12
King James Version
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Isaiah 30:10
New Living Translation
10 They tell the seers,
“Stop seeing visions!”
They tell the prophets,
“Don’t tell us what is right.
Tell us nice things.
Tell us lies.
Isaiah 30:10
King James Version
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
New Living Translation
15 For some of the Jews killed the prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us, too. They fail to please God and work against all humanity 16 as they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.
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1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
King James Version
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
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Acts 7:51
New Living Translation
51 “You stubborn people! You are heathen[a] at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!
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- 7:51 Greek uncircumcised.
Acts 7:51
King James Version
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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Acts 5:40
New Living Translation
40 The others accepted his advice. They called in the apostles and had them flogged. Then they ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus, and they let them go.
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Acts 5:40
King James Version
40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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Acts 5:28
New Living Translation
28 “We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man’s name!” he said. “Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”
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Acts 5:28
King James Version
28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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Acts 4:17
New Living Translation
17 But to keep them from spreading their propaganda any further, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus’ name again.”
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Acts 4:17
King James Version
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
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Micah 6:16
New Living Translation
16 You keep only the laws of evil King Omri;
you follow only the example of wicked King Ahab!
Therefore, I will make an example of you,
bringing you to complete ruin.
You will be treated with contempt,
mocked by all who see you.”
Micah 6:16
King James Version
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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Amos 8:11-13
New Living Translation
11 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from border to border[a]
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
13 Beautiful girls and strong young men
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the Lord’s word.
Footnotes
- 8:12 Hebrew from north to east.
Amos 8:11-13
King James Version
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Amos 7:13
New Living Translation
13 Don’t bother us with your prophecies here in Bethel. This is the king’s sanctuary and the national place of worship!”
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Amos 7:13
King James Version
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
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Ezekiel 21:2
New Living Translation
2 “Son of man, turn and face Jerusalem and prophesy against Israel and her sanctuaries.
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Ezekiel 21:2
King James Version
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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Ezekiel 20:46
New Living Translation
46 “Son of man, turn and face the south[a] and speak out against it; prophesy against the brushlands of the Negev.
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- 20:46 Hebrew toward Teman.
Ezekiel 20:46
King James Version
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
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